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mea! MANOLO RAY, EXILE LEADER OF MOVIMIENTO REVOLUCIONARIO

BEL PUEBLO. (MRA = PEOPLE'S REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENT) SAID IN;
EARLY OCTOBER THAT HE WAS FIRMLY OPPOSED TO ANY INVASION OF CUBA,
ANSISTING THAT CASTRO'S OVERTHROW WAS TO CE ACHIEVED BY INTERNAL
RESISTANCE AND THIS HAD ALREADY STARTEO. re an
tiie THE MRP WAS- ORGANIZED THROUGHOUT THE ISLAND AND suPPoRTEO
BY ALL CLASSES OF THE POPULATION. iT HAD MEMBERS IN ALL 33
TRADE UNIONS, THE G2, MILITIA ANO THROUGHOUT THE ADMINISTRATION,
RAY ESTIMATED 80. PERCENT OF POPULATION WERE OfPOSED TO CASTRO,

THOUGH MAJORITY. WERE NOT ACTIVELY $0, HE CONSIDERED THE MRP AT :
_ PRESENT ENJOYED MORE SUPPORT THAN THE ‘ORIGINAL REVOLUTION HAD fi

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3. THE MRP_WAS PRESENTLY SHORT OF ARMS, AND EXPLOSIVES But THE.

"POSITION WAS IMPROVING. s MILITIA CAPTAIN WAS. RECENTLY -

SENTENCED TO 30 YEARS PRISON FOR PASSING ARMS TO THE mo), a

| NO HELP WHATSOEVER HAD BEEN RECEIVEO BY THE INTERNAL RESISTANCE

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_ FOR THE ANVASION" « THESE- ‘SOURCES WERE STILL THINKING | a
, INEFFECTUALLY IN’ TERMS OF A FURTHER | INVASION. - : ‘

a, THE GENERAL ATTITUDE OF THE RESISTANCE IN (CUBA TOWARDS

"THE EXILES WAS ONE OF - INDIFFERENCE MOUNTING TO CONTEMPT FOR:

SPECIFIC MOVES ‘SUCH AS. THE PROPOSEO PROMOTION: OF A CUBAN GOVT ;

iN EXILES WHAT . THE RESISTANCE WANTEO WAS ‘FUNDS ANO THE RETURN,
, BY INFILTRATION, oF Transeo EXILES, PARTICULARLY COMMUN CATION

5. ON THE: TIMING OF. “CASTRO'S OVERTHROW, RAY. SAID CASTRO WOULD

NoT UsT. ANOTHER . YEAR. HE ADDED THAT THE SITUATION IN. uBA
: IMMEDIATELY AFTER cASTRO'S “DOWNFALL WOULD OF DANGEROUS ‘AND couco “


